On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:26 -0800, Tom Bostelmann wrote: [...] > personally i think we should just use GraphViz since it has many Wiki > integrations. it's good at communicating simple modeling and might be > a better "first-step". [...]
Good point. Simple, maintainable, and useful visualizations are nice, and tools like GraphViz are great for this. A solution using GraphViz would be a homegrown one, but perhaps it would evolve with the code rather than being a class diagram good for only one point in time. It would be great if volunteers come up with a beautiful point-in-time class diagram of Mifos, but I guess I'm wary of being trapped into using proprietary (and expensive) tools like Rational Rose and Magicdraw. Then again, I've never used these tools so I don't know if the tradeoff in time (perhaps it is faster to use these tools than Free ones like GraphViz), Freedom and monetary cost is worth it. If we had great diagrams, maybe development work would cost less and take less time. Hence the trial starting with classes related to CustomerBO. :) Kevin, are you interested in looking into GraphViz? -- Adam Monsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace
